Reading the iTea leaves

BankMyCell has aggregated both global and regional consumer iPhone “purchase and resale intent” queries made using Google between 2007-2018 to create a big collection of visualizations that show the impact of Apple’s iPhone product launches.

iPhone users are usually twice as interested in new models as Galaxy users

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The charts make interesting reading. They pretty much confirm that the reason so many people still use an iPhone 6 is because so many people ran out and got hold of them – and that many of those long-lived and still popular devices are still in use once their original owners upgraded their device. It seems that the iPhone 6 and 6S together account for just over 14 percent of all enterprise mobility activity, and with enterprise bosses now coalescing their mobile deployments around iOS, it makes sense for them to upgrade.

Given the threat of more expensive Apple smartphones in the event the current U.S. chief makes them more expensive for U.S. consumers by intensifying a self-declared trade war with China, might this prompt people to upgrade now, rather than wait another unpredictable year? Apple offers its iPhone Upgrade Program to help make it easier to accomplish that.

What can we expect?

We do have a sense of what to expect from these new devices.

There will be three models, a larger (Pro/Plus) 6.5-inch iPhone X model, an updated 5.8-inch iPhone X (both with OLED displays and a lower cost 6.1-inch iPhone X LCD-screen variant. The latter will be made available in multiple colors but will ship later, apparently. More info.

Two new iPad Pros (10.5-inch and 12.9-inch models) with Face ID and much faster A11X or A12X processors (and charging) are expected. More information.

Apple is thought to be planning to introduce a new Mac to replace the MacBook Air and Mac mini. More information.

Apple Watch with an edge-to-edge display making the screen around 15 percent larger. You’ll get longer battery life and new health and fitness features, (a non-invasive diabetes monitor?) Existing watch bands will fit, so there’s still time to sell yours on eBay. More information.

This year for the first time it even looks like Apple will share its news on Twitter.

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